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soft-bodied, a. Zool.
[soft a. 31.]
Having a soft body.
1782Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) IX. 6617/2 These tender and soft-bodied animals [sc. frogs]. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxv. 655 In soft-bodied insects they [the legs] seem usually more firm and unbending. 1846Patterson Zool. 27 The molluscous or soft-bodied animals, which are known as shell-fish. 1872H. A. Nicholson Palaeont. 59 No trace of the past existence of which has yet been obtained, or, from their soft-bodied nature, is ever likely to be. |